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Instant karma? Ukraine Battalion Commander Dies After Crashing Into WWII Memorial Tue, 03 Mar 2015 11:00:08 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ac_1425398176
TruelUkraine Battalion Commander Dies After Crashing Into WWII Memorial (c) REUTERS/ Stringer
4144311The commander of the "Azov" volunteer battalion and his driver crashed to their death in an off-road car retreating from the village of Shirokyne in the Donetsk Region of East Ukraine.
(c) ALEXANDER MAXIMENKO
Ukrainian Azov Regiment Fighters Shown Posing With Portrait of Adolf Hitler The car smashed into a monument built in the memory of the heroes of World War II. The memorial survived the hit and did not fall, but the two Ukrainian national security agents died on the spot.
On the last day before the armistice on February 14, the car crashed into a memorial to the heroes of World War II. Self-defense fighters considered the accident very symbolic.
Part of village is under the control of the self-defense forces, and the other part is controlled by the Ukrainian army. As a whole, the ceasefire in the village is being observed. However, localized shooting has taken place because not all fighters of Ukraine's National Guard have obeyed the orders of Petro Poroshenko.
(c) SPUTNIK/ EVGENY KOTENKO
Nationalist Aidar Unit Reorganized As Separate Assault Battalion of Ukraine's Army " frequent provocations from their side, bombardments and shelling from the tanks and 120 mortars. The last shelling was yesterday, we didn't respond, we sat out... They have two working tanks, they often hit apartment houses, which have no relation to military facilities," one of the defenders of Shirokyne said.
The independent supporters of Donetsk People's Republic have held the fort here without heavy weapons. The representatives of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republic reported that they had completed the withdrawal of artillery from the line of contact with the Ukrainian military in accordance with the plan approved by military representatives of both parties and the agreement enshrined in the first paragraph of measures in observance with the Minsk agreements.
OSCE representatives recorded the observance of the Minsk agreement by authorities of Donetsk People's Republic. International observers praised the steps of the DPR to ease the tensions in Donbas. As for the Ukraine's National Guard, the DPR's Ministry of Defense noted on February 28 that they had only withdrawn 15 percent of armaments from the contact line. According to the self-defense fighters, the National Guard has no hurry to perform the agreement and had only partially removed their artillery.
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http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150302/1018965399.htmlhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ac_1425398176TruelInstant karma? Ukraine Battalion Commander Dies After Crashing Into WWII Memorial Ukraine. karma. azov. The article that killed Nemtsov was a fake. Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:35:50 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=079_1425396308
TruelMarch 1, 2015
Stanislav Yakovlev - Facebook
Translated by Kristina Rus http://fortruss.blogspot.no/2015/03/the-article-that-killed-nemtsov-was-fake.html
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"Sobesednik". Dear. You f$cked up.
I am talking about the website of "Sobesednik" suddenly posting the "Full version of the interview with Boris Nemtsov".
And now, attention: the original, twenty-days-old:
- Interesting. Did you after such conversations with your mother begin to fear that Putin may soon kill you personally or through intermediaries?
- You know, yes... a little. Not as much as mom, but still... But still I am not so much afraid of him. If I was very afraid, then I would not head the opposition party, would not be engaged in what I do. By the way, please say hello to Dmitry Bykov from me and mama.
- Thank you, I will. Hope, still, common sense will prevail and Putin isn't going to kill you.
- God forbid. And I hope so.
Now compare this beauty with decrypted, as far as I understand it, literally - that is, without editing, processing, and author's additions - full version of the interview :
- And, perhaps, finally, I will ask you, are you not afraid of Putin? Or have you become more cautious?
- I am not that scared
- But a little fear, yes?
- Well listen, I'm just kidding. If I was scared, then I would not head the opposition party, would not be engaged in what I do. Mom, by the way, loves Dmitry Bykov and knows that he works for the "Sobesednik". Sends best wishes to him.
End quote, and the end of the interview.
Twenty days ago fictional Boris Nemtsov has admitted that he is a little afraid of Vladimir Putin. Slightly, but significantly. Because Vladimir Putin could easily kill Boris Nemtsov. But Boris Nemtsov hopes that the Lord Almighty in his great mercy will not allow his demise. Because there is nothing more to rely on anyway.
While the real Boris Nemtsov said that he is not afraid of Putin. He wasn't even asked about a murder. And the final exchange of remarks about the triumph of common sense and the help of God in the context of prospects to die a violent death at the whim of the Kremlin tyrant is the result of unhealthy fantasies of the writers from "Sobesednik", from the first letter to the last point.
You know, there's a popular verse about the collapse of the Ceausescu regime, and there's a great line, which I now really want to quote:
"Are you f%cked up, brothers Romanians?"
And besides this purely rhetorical question there is nothing else to say to you.
Especially considering a theory, and quite convincing one, according to which, the statement of Nemtsov "I am afraid, Putin can kill me" in an interview with "Sobesednik" has become the main, if not only, reason for his murder.
The statement, which never existed in reality. Absolute fabrication. Just the unique creative team wanted a bit of light traffic. But they could not write that Vladimir Putin f$cks pigs, because for this some polite people can show up.
But the title that "Vladimir Putin can kill Boris Nemtsov" - is a great, cheerful headline. No, really, what's the problem? No false statements contained in the text. Or are you saying that Vladimir Putin can't kill Boris Nemtsov? Putin can do anything.
But I still strongly hope that tomorrow at this march of the mourning they will suddenly bring a fake coffin with twined garlands painted in the style of "My Little Pony", and alive and well Nemtsov will rise out of it and will report "April Fools!"
Otherwise I have no idea how to fit, feel and comprehend all of this...
Kristina Rus:
To answer the question why would the editors of Sobesednik expose themselves like that after the fact, the author arrives at the conclusion that the full interview was simply posted to generate more traffic in light of recent events.
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Here is the full interview: ( I have google translated it)
In an interview with "companion" Nemtsov said: Mom is afraid that he would soon be killed. We decided to publish the full interview
Opposition politician talked about his mother Dina Yakovlevna and admitted that she was afraid that he would soon kill Vladimir Putin (or his people). I asked my mother about Boris Nemtsov called him in early February on mobile, not just. The fact is that this year we have a "companion", a new heading - "Hi, Mom." Kind, sincere heading where different celebrities talk about the closest person - my mother, about his conversations with him. I usually ask a lot of questions, the answers to which goes very tiny text on a paragraph.
Hearing about the format column, Boris Nemtsov immediately told me that his mother asks him to stop criticize Putin. Here'sa completely this conversation in the form which it was recorded, without any changes:
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- She's asking for you, when you stop to scold Putin?
- When I called her regularly, she says, "Son, when you stop to scold Putin? He will kill you "(laughs).
- And she refers to him as - good or bad?
- She refers to him very badly, of course, I'm her son, after all. Mom I always accustomed to the fact that it is necessary to defend his point of view, to be independent and self-sufficient. On his head so that's brought me, and now outraged that I scold Putin, who is trying to have - we have with you -otobrat freedom. Mother began to treat him very badly and after Beslan and after the "Nord-Ost". And now because of the war in Ukraine, it is very bad for him is. She refers to him in the same way as I do, just afraid that I will be killed.
- It seriously is afraid or as a joke?
- No, she was seriously afraid. She is an intelligent man. She is very afraid of this. It is also an elderly man, so it is clear that it has all sorts of age concerns. At this age, a lot of that fear, but for herself she is not afraid, and afraid for me.
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- Can you tell us more about herself mother? Her name is Dean Y. . She deserved a pediatrician. Now she, of course, is no longer working?
- No, of course. Are you kidding me, or something.
- Well, you know, there are doctors who work until the very end ...
- No, my mother does not work. During the war, as a schoolgirl, she dug trenches. She had a hard life. She has two children. It really is very capable, talented doctor and still can diagnose me to put on the phone - not necessarily to come to her.
- And what is it you diagnose problems, I wonder?
- If I tell her symptoms, she says, you have bronchitis, and to do so-and-so. Or to put it, you have a sore throat, cold, or you have the flu.
- She understands the modern medicines, such as antibiotics?
- She hates antibiotics - believes that they kill the immune system. It is rather a supporter of traditional medicine.
- What kind of folk remedies she recommends you? Tea with honey?
- Yeah, something like that. Any herbal infusions, of course, depending on the disease. In short, she did not like pills. She even aspirin is considered unsafe, though not against it. It is against dipyrone.
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- How she doing?
- It is great fares. She has gray hair less than me. She does not have MS.
- Sane, clear memory?
- Absolutely.
- Do you live alone?
- Yes, she is in Nizhny Novgorod, and I am in Moscow.
- She lives there with someone?
- No, she lives alone.
- Just all alone?
- Yes, but it go, my sister and her grandson.
- Do you like her to visit often?
- When I'm in the bottom. It is winter in Moscow in December came. On the birthday I had. Now her hard drive, so basically I go once a month.
- Call up how often?
- Weekly.
- Boris, what topics not related to politics, you talk to my mother?
- Pro children - her grandchildren.
- Learn how they are doing?
- Well, of course, well, of course. Is nothing sensational is not here.
- Statement that it says? Maybe she grows something? How is her life?
- No, no, it does not grow, she lives in a one-bedroom apartment. What is there to grow? She does not live in the garden.
- Maybe you some movies with her to discuss?
- She watches TV, movies, talking to neighbors. Living a normal life of the pensioner.
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- That is "Leviathan", for example, which is discussing the whole country, by her failed?
- I think she would have liked the "Leviathan", but it does not use the Internet because of their age. I think she would go to the cinema, I am sure that it will go.
- Okay. If not about Putin, it is still something related to politics, talking to? For example, she thinks osituatsii in Ukraine?
- Strongly opposed. Believes that this is a disaster, and in general a complete nightmare.
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- That is, it is not limited to Putin's policies?
- No, but war-Putin unleashed, so it is inseparable things.
- Other oppositionists like you as it is?
- It is very good to Khodorkovsky, she knows, I saw back then, before landing. To bulk it is also normal, but believes that it could be imprisoned for a long time and that, in general, it's a nightmare. She was sorry for his wife Julia.
- How Come? After all ended well? Given a suspended term.
- Firstly, nothing has ended. Second, she considers it a nightmare when children are left without a father.
- She is not afraid that they will kill Navalny and fears for you?
- Ha-ha-ha! She can not be afraid for everyone. She's my mom, not Navalny.
- What to talk about with my mother in one of your extreme conversations with my mother?
- We discussed my younger daughter Sophia, who sings at Alla Pugacheva. My mother was very interested in whom she had such a voice. To this question I could not answer (laughs).
- Do you think you can not?
- No.
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- Maybe a grandmother?
- Mom to vote no, but a good rumor.
- Well, perhaps finally ask you, and you are not afraid of Putin? Or become still more cautious?
- I have ... I'm afraid not much.
- But there is a little fear, right?
- Well, listen, I'm kidding. If I was afraid, it is unlikely that would be headed by an opposition party, is unlikely to be involved in what I do. Mom, by the way, is very fond of Dima Bykov and know that it works in the "companion". Gives him the best wishes.
* * *
Boris Nemtsov was killed in the center of Moscow, near the Kremlin, on the night of February 28th.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=079_1425396308TruelThe article that killed Nemtsov was a fake. Russia. US NGO. Nemtsov. lies. anti- Russian propagandaNemtsov murder: Ukrainian girlfriend flies to Kiev from RussiaMon, 02 Mar 2015 20:23:41 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a50_1425345693
mondo bongoThe Ukrainian girlfriend of murdered opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who is the only known witness to his killing on Friday night, has reportedly flown to Kiev after being held for questioning by authorities in Moscow.
Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman Yevgeny Perebiinis said Anna Duritskaya had flown to Kiev after the Ukrainian embassy in Russia "provided all the necessary assistance for her return to her home country," Interfax news agency reported.
Duritskaya, a 23-year-old model who said she had known Nemtsov for about three years, told the independent channel TV Rain on Monday that she was being held under police guard in a friend's apartment in Moscow and not being allowed to move around freely.
She said she had been questioned by the investigative committee for three days and had not been told why she was being held or for how long.
"I've told them everything possible, and I don't know why I am still on Russian territory, as I want to go back to my mum, who is ill and ... in a very difficult psychological state," Duritskaya said.
Nemtsov and Duritskaya had been walking across a bridge next to the Kremlin after dinner on Friday night when an unknown assassin shot the former deputy prime minister - a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin - four times in the back, killing him on the spot.
Duritskaya told TV Rain she had been in shock and remembered little about what happened. She said the killer had got into a light-coloured passing car after the shooting, but said she did not see the person's face nor the vehicle's number plate.
"I don't want to answer questions about what happened on the bridge. I don't want to talk about this," she said. "I am in a very difficult psychological condition and I cannot talk about this any more now. I feel bad ... I saw no one. I don't know where he came from, he was behind my back."
Although numerous surveillance cameras have been photographed in the area of the shooting, only inconclusive footage from a local television channel's distant camera has been published. In that video, a snow-removal truck passes in front of what appears to be the couple at the exact time of the murder.
The federal protection service, which is in charge of guarding the Kremlin, said on Monday that its cameras had not captured the killing. But blogger Mitya Aleshkovsky published a photograph he took of a Kremlin security camera shortly after the tragedy occurred, which he said showed the camera was "pointed directly at the place of the murder".
Duritskaya's lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said on Monday that she would refuse to undergo a lie detector test because there was no reason to doubt her testimony, and it would place additional stress on her.
US president Barack Obama said on Monday that the killing of Nemtsov is a sign of a worsening climate in Russia where civil rights and media freedoms have been rolled back in the last several years.
"This is an indication of a climate at least inside of Russia in which civil society, independent journalists, people trying to communicate on the internet, have felt increasingly threatened, constrained. And increasingly the only information that the Russian public is able to get is through state-controlled media outlets," Obama said.
"I have no idea at this point exactly what happened. What I do know is more broadly the fact that freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of information, basic civil rights and civil liberties inside of Russia are in much worse shape now than they were four or five, 10 years ago."
The news outlet Izvestiya, which is known for its close ties to the authorities, reported shortly after midnight on Tuesday that the team investigating Nemtsov's killing "have focused on the explanation connected with the so-called Ukrainian trace." Investigators suspect his murder was ordered by Ukrainian intelligence services or pro-Kiev fighter named Adam Osmayev, an unnamed source reportedly said. Osmayev, a native of Russia's Chechnya republic who has recently re-appeared fighting on the side of the government in eastern Ukraine , was charged in 2012 with a foiled attempt to assassinate Putin.
Putin's spokesman said shortly after the killing that it was "100% a provocation," drawing criticism from some that the Kremlin could be sending signals about how it wants investigators to proceed.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a50_1425345693mondo bongoNemtsov murder: Ukrainian girlfriend flies to Kiev from RussiaRussia, NemtsovUS Provokes China by flying over disputed land.Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:33:59 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c1_1425324447
Waen VanOK? RIGHT YOU FUCKING BITCHES!
Why was my post removed yesterday for linking to s a newspaper, yet THIS post was allowed today with exactly the same type of contect and links?
It seems any post which brings America into dis-repute is reomved on here now.
PEOPLE KOW WHEN THEY ARE BEING CENSORED&gt;
and LL is now obviously under "the guidence" of our western friends...
So long you faceless cock sucking cowards!
You didn;t even have the balls to tell me why my post had been removed. dirty little cocksukers!
FSB agents kidnap Ukrainian model
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http://uatoday.tv/news/ukrainian-model-missing-after-witnessing-murder-of-russian-opposition-politician-boris-nemtsov-412531.html
A Ukrainian young lady who witnessed the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov
has gone missing. That's according to the head of consular affairs at
the Ukrainian Embassy in Russia, reports Ukraine's UNIAN news agency.
The diplomat said with 23-year-old model Anna Durytska being classed as a
witness, she is entitled to return to Ukraine. At the same time,
Ukrainian MP Ostap Semerak reports that Russian law enforcement have
forcibly detained her in a private apartment without being granted
consular assistance. However, she has occasionally been in contact.
Anna Duritskaya was walking Nemtsov near the Kremlin early on Friday night when the prominent Russian politician was shot dead.
Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c47_1425318759#sDsB7AsGeJmbgMPS.99http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c1_1425324447Waen VanUS Provokes China by flying over disputed land.China, US, Ukraine, AmericaFSB agents kidnap Ukrainian model Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:34:52 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c47_1425318759
machoottohttp://uatoday.tv/news/ukrainian-model-missing-after-witnessing-murder-of-russian-opposition-politician-boris-nemtsov-412531.html
A Ukrainian young lady who witnessed the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has gone missing. That's according to the head of consular affairs at the Ukrainian Embassy in Russia, reports Ukraine's UNIAN news agency.
The diplomat said with 23-year-old model Anna Durytska being classed as a witness, she is entitled to return to Ukraine. At the same time, Ukrainian MP Ostap Semerak reports that Russian law enforcement have forcibly detained her in a private apartment without being granted consular assistance. However, she has occasionally been in contact.
Anna Duritskaya was walking Nemtsov near the Kremlin early on Friday night when the prominent Russian politician was shot dead.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c47_1425318759machoottoFSB agents kidnap Ukrainian model Ukraine, RussiaWho killed Boris Nemtsov - and why?Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:38:26 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=507_1425313995
mondo bongoSource
Whether the assassination of Boris Nemtsov was orchestrated by government figures or liberals seeking to create a martyr, his body lying in the street near the Kremlin is a bad look for Vladimir Putin, writes Matthew Sussex.
The gangland-style killing of Boris Nemtsov on Friday marked the worrying return of political assassination to Russia's internal power games. While Russia has remained one of the most dangerous places to be a government opponent or outspoken journalist , murders of opposition members have actually tapered off in recent years.
Nemtsov was shot four times as he walked on a bridge across the Moskva river, only metres from the Kremlin walls, and just one day before he was due to lead a protest rally against Vladimir Putin.
For Kremlin critics, the most likely culprits will be those close to Putin's inner circle, most of whom have backgrounds in the FSB (Federal Security Service).
Scenario 1: Putin's inner circle involved
There is a fairly lengthy set of precedents for such an assumption. In 1998, Galina Starovoitova, the human rights campaigner and democratic politician, was gunned down outside her apartment in St Petersburg. The assassination's organisers were officially found in 2013, yet questions remain about the alleged role of organised crime gangs, rival politicians and the Russian security services in ordering the hit .
Sergey Yushenkov was shot dead outside his apartment in 2003 . He had been investigating charges that the FSB was behind the pair of apartment bombings in Moscow during 1999 that were subsequently blamed on the Chechens.
Paul Klebnikov, the editor of Russia's Forbes magazine, was shot and killed in 2004 while working on a story about Kremlin corruption and embezzlement during the reconstruction of Chechnya.
In 2006, the anti-Putin journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead at her home . And a month later, the Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko was sensationally poisoned with polonium in London. His death came after he had written a book alleging that the Kremlin was behind the bomb plots of 1999, which were subsequently used as justifications for war in Chechnya.
According to this prominent view, members of the siloviki - politicians and officials originally from the security services - have methodically been doing away with anyone who might challenge their privileged positions. This includes meddling in the affairs of other countries. A case in point was the poisoning of the anti-Russian Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko with dioxin in 2004, which left him badly disfigured. And before his death Nemtsov was compiling a report which his supporters claim showed direct proof of Russian involvement in the conflict in Ukraine.
Scenario 2 : Putin personally involved
A second possibility accepts that the siloviki are responsible, but with the added caveat that they acted with Putin's blessing. In other words, Putin is directly complicit in Nemtsov's killing, and potentially in past murders too.
Why would Putin want to kill Nemtsov? For one thing, it would be a pre-emptive strike on any domestic unrest, sending a message to his opponents after he had just reluctantly reined in pro-Russian rebels at the Minsk 2 peace talks . Hence Putin's calculations would be driven by the need to show strength, to terrorise dissenters, and avoid the perception of weakness among Russia's sizeable far right.
But one wonders whether this can be true. After all, it runs counter to Putin's domestic interests. What could be gained from eliminating a marginalised critic, without even a seat in parliament, and stirring up internal unrest? Perhaps he could blame it on Ukrainian spies as a pretext for invasion? Yet he has accomplished more or less what he wants in the Ukraine.
In truth, the optics of Nemtsov's killing , his body lying in the street with St Basil's as backdrop, are bad for Putin. The episode will automatically draw support away from the Kremlin, and a crackdown in the aftermath will only make that worse.
Scenario 3: Fellow liberals behind murder plot
There is a third possibility: that fellow liberals, perhaps with links to Ukrainian nationalists, killed Nemtsov. In the lead-up to the last presidential election, Putin himself had issued a warning that anti-Kremlin figures could be murdered by their own kind. That would foment a crisis which could then be blamed on the government. If a Ukrainian fifth column was involved, the rationale would be that killing Nemtsov would spark a wider war with Ukraine, and thereby hasten Kiev's entry into NATO.
That sounds pretty fantastical, but we should not be too quick to rush to judgment. After all, there is now significant evidence that Ukrainian nationalists played a role in the violence unleashed at Kiev's Euromaidan , and that it was not just the security services to blame for violence. Hence it is possible (albeit unlikely) that Nemtsov was deliberately made a martyr.
On the face of it, though, it seems most likely that someone with government connections was ultimately responsible. The hit was well planned, the scene was a highly symbolic backdrop, and the target was an individual who had long been a thorn in the side of government officials. If so, it is unlikely Nemtsov's murder will be solved any time soon, since the culprit(s) would have been careful to distance themselves from the actual triggermen.
By the same token it is far too simplistic to blame 'the FSB'. Kremlin politics are extremely complex and virtually impossible to reliably track. There are four to seven competing factions, some of which overlap. All of them involve members who swap sides. Some are frequently tagged 'hardliners', like the groups controlled by Igor Sechin and Nikolai Patrushev . Others, like Sergei and Viktor Ivanov , are sometimes branded more moderate. But they are far from a united cabal, and Putin regularly moves individuals up and down to keep them on their toes. Any one of these groups, or their supporters, could have been involved, which makes getting to the bottom of the case even harder. Or it could have been none of them: some other highly plausible potential culprits include organised criminals and Russian ultranationalists. Each had a reason to kill Nemtsov, whether driven by the profit motive or by a hatred of liberal ideology.
Nemtsov knew he might be killed . He had spoken of the possibility as recently as a fortnight ago. Yet his death is more than just a sign that liberals are once again potential execution targets. It will be a vital test of opposition to Putin's rule inside Russia. Nemtsov's murder has already caused popular outrage , as evidenced by this morning's march in Moscow. If it sparks widespread civil disobedience, it will be a sign that Putin's seemingly immovable spot at the apex of Russian politics is vulnerable. But if the liberal intelligentsia accept it meekly and with only token protests, it will demonstrate the direct opposite: that there is still no realistic alternative to the government in the Kremlin.
This article was first published on the Lowy Institute's Interpreter . Read the original .
Matthew Sussex is Director of the Politics and International Relations program at the University of Tasmania.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=507_1425313995mondo bongoWho killed Boris Nemtsov - and why?Russia,Nemtsov&quot;I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in the Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.&quot;Mon, 02 Mar 2015 06:44:50 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=654_1425295968
eljesterBoris Nemtsov said: "I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in the Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more."
Speaking to Russia's Sobesednik news website on 10 February
The lady walking with Boris Nemstov is still missing.
One more involuntary Martyr to the list:
Violent Deaths of Putin Opponents
Violent deaths of Putin opponentsApril 2003 - Liberal politician Sergey Yushenkov assassinated near his Moscow home
July 2003 - Investigative journalist Yuri Schekochikhin died after 16-day mysterious illness
July 2004 - Forbes magazine Russian editor Paul Klebnikov shot from moving car on Moscow street, died later in hospital
October 2006 - Investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya shot dead outside her Moscow apartment
November 2006 - Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died nearly three weeks after drinking tea laced with polonium in London hotel
March 2013 - Boris Berezovsky, former Kremlin power broker turned Putin critic, found dead in his UK homehttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=654_1425295968eljester&quot;I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe that he was the one who unleashed the war in the Ukraine. I couldn't dislike him more.&quot;Putin, killer, opposition, Boris, NemtsovFear Envelops Russia After Killing of Putin Critic Boris Y. NemtsovSat, 28 Feb 2015 21:07:37 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=340_1425175542
PimpCbiatchMOSCOW - About two weeks before he was shot and killed in the highest-profile political assassination in Russia in a decade, Boris Y. Nemtsov met with an old friend to discuss his latest research into what he said was dissembling and misdeeds in the Kremlin.
He was, as always, pugilistic and excited, saying he wanted to publish the research in a pamphlet to be called "Putin and the War," about President Vladimir V. Putin and Russian involvement in the Ukraine conflict, recalled Yevgenia Albats, the editor of New Times magazine. Both knew the stakes.
Mr. Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, knew his work was dangerous but tried to convince her that, as a former high official in the Kremlin, he enjoyed immunity, Ms. Albats said.
He was afraid of being killed," Ms. Albats said. "And he was trying to convince himself, and me, they wouldn't touch him because he was a member of the Russian government, a vice premier, and they wouldn't want to create a precedent. Because as he said, one time the power will change hands in Russia again, and those who served Putin wouldn't want to create this precedent."
Russians created a memorial to opposition leader Boris Y. Nemtsov on Saturday at the site of his death in central Moscow. A number of theories have begun to circulate on how he was killed.
Some critics of the Kremlin accused the security services of responsibility, while others floated the idea of rogue Russian nationalists on the loose in Moscow.
The authorities said they were investigating several theories about the crime, some immediately scorned as improbable, including the possibility that fellow members of the opposition had killed Mr. Nemtsov to create a martyr. Mr. Putin, for his part, vowed in a letter to Mr. Nemtsov's mother to bring to justice those responsible.
As supporters of Mr. Nemtsov laid flowers on the sidewalk where he was shot and killed late Friday, a shiver of fear moved through the political opposition in Moscow.
The worry was that the killing would become a pivot point toward a revival of lethal violence among the leadership elite in Moscow and an intensified climate of fear in Russian domestic politics.
"Another terrible page has been turned in our history," Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the exiled former political prisoner, wrote in a statement about the killing.
"For more than a year now, the television screens have been flooded with pure hate for us," he wrote of the opposition to Mr. Putin. "And now everyone from the blogger at his apartment desk to President Putin, himself, is searching for enemies, accusing one another of provocation. What is wrong with us?"
Vladimir Milov, a former deputy minister of energy, and co-author with Mr. Nemtsov of pamphlets alleging corruption in Mr. Putin's government, said he was concerned that the state could now target former officials like Mr. Nemtsov - or like him - deemed disloyal.
This comes as analysts of Russian politics say the Kremlin could be worried about, and intent on discouraging, further defections to the opposition, given reported high-level schisms between hard-liners and liberals over military and economic policy. The government is already under strain from Russia's unacknowledged involvement in the war in Ukraine and runaway inflation in an economic crisis.
Mr. Milov posted an online statement saying, "There is ever less doubt that the state is behind the murder of Boris Nemtsov," and that the intention was to revive a culture of fear in Moscow. "The motive was to sow fear," he wrote.
Irina Khakamada, a former member of Parliament, suggested in an interview with Snob magazine that splinter groups in the security service intent on retaining Soviet practices, or "radical frozen ones, who think anything is allowed," could be to blame.
Russian authorities said on Saturday that one line of investigation would be to examine whether Mr. Nemtsov, a 55-year-old former first deputy prime minister and longtime leader of the opposition, had become a "sacrificial victim" to rally support for opponents of the government, the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement.
The statement, the fullest official response so far to Mr. Nemtsov's killing, said the police were pursing half a dozen leads in the case, the highest-profile assassination in Russia during the tenure of Mr. Putin.
The committee also cited the possibility that Islamic extremists had killed Mr. Nemtsov over his position on the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, saying that security forces had been aware of threats against him from Islamist militants. The committee also said that "radical personalities" on one or another side of the Ukrainian conflict might may have been responsible. The statement said the police were also considering possible business or personal disputes as motives.
"The investigation is considering several versions," the statements said. The first it listed was: "a murder as a provocation to destabilize the political situation in the country, where the figure of Nemtsov could have become a sort of sacrificial victim for those who stop at nothing to achieve their political goals."
This explanation echoed and elaborated on a statement posted overnight on the Kremlin website, which also characterized the murder as a "provocation."
"The president noted that this cruel murder has all the signs of a contract killing and carries an exclusively provocative character," the Kremlin statement said. "Vladimir Putin expressed his deep condolences to the relatives and loved ones of Boris Nemtsov, who died tragically."
Mr. Putin, in a message to Mr. Nemtsov's mother released by the Kremlin, said, "Everything will be done so that the organizers and perpetrators of a vile and cynical murder get the punishment they deserve."
Initially, Russian news media reported Mr. Nemtsov had been shot from a passing car. On Saturday, however, a television channel, TVTs, broadcast a surveillance video purporting to show the murder, though from a distance. Mr. Nemtsov had left a restaurant in the GUM shopping center on Red Square and was walking with his girlfriend, Anna Duritskaya, a Ukrainian model.
A snowplow blocked the scene. But the video, which has not been independently verified, appears to show the shooter was hiding on a stairway on Moskvoretsky Bridge waiting for Mr. Nemtsov and Ms. Duritskaya to pass. Later, the figure of the supposed shooter runs to a getaway car that pulls up on the bridge.
After laying flowers on a floral mound already chest high and kneeling in respect before the blooms festooning the sidewalk on a rainy, glum midafternoon, Anatoly Chubais, a co-founder with Mr. Nemtsov of the Union of Right Forces political party, scorned the investigators' claim.
"Today, we had a statement that the liberal opposition organized the killing," he said. "Before this, they wrote that the liberals created the economic crisis. In this country, we have created demand for anger and hate."
Ilya Yashin, a political ally of Mr. Nemtsov's, drew attention again to the pamphlet Mr. Nemtsov was preparing on Russian military aid to pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. Speaking on the Echo of Moscow radio station, he said Mr. Nemtsov had "some materials that directly proved" the participation of the Russian army in the Donbas war in Ukraine.
Mr. Yashin said he knew no details, or what had become of those materials.
Ms. Albats, who had discussed with Mr. Nemtsov his unfinished expos'e, said of this state of affairs in domestic Russian politics, "We are at war now."
"Those who are believers in democracy, those who for some reason, back in the late 1980s, got on board this train, and had all these hopes and aspirations," she said, "they are at war today."http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=340_1425175542PimpCbiatchFear Envelops Russia After Killing of Putin Critic Boris Y. NemtsovRussia, UkraineThe list of Putin-ordered and orchestrated killingsSat, 28 Feb 2015 07:19:07 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6cd_1425113674
RusoNecrophiliacAnother day passes by and we have another murdered opposition leader of putin. Perhaps it would be nice to make a short recap of the murders that have been ordered and orchestrated by the rat-faced kremlin midget since he came to power.
1.) Galina Starovoitova (November 1998) - opposition Duma Deputy and the most prominent pro-democracy Kremlin critic in the nation, is murdered at her apartment building in St. Petersburg only 4 months after putin takes over the KGB/FSB. Putlers goal was to prepare the ground for himself to become the russian PM. For this he needed silence any possible critic. Sadly, Galina Starovoitova was among them.
2.) 212 innocent civilians in the Pechatniki and Kashirskoye neighbourhoods in Moscow (September 1999) - being shortly in the PM office, he's still Mr. Nobody (as he was his whole life). He needs to make his bones asap because the 2000 presidential elections are behind the corner. He figures out that it would be nice if russia would be in war so he could go to the frontline and picture himself as a &quot;warrior&quot; (apparently this works on the retarded drunk russian electorate). But how to start a war??? I know, let's orchestrate a terror attack, blame it on the Chechens and we're in war. It worked perfectly. 212 innocent russian civilians dead. Tens of thousands dead Chechens. And russia has a new president, a rat-faced Mr. Nobody.
3.) Sergei Yushenkov (April 2003) - co-chairman of the political party Liberal Russia and vice chair of the group known as the "Kovalev Commission&quot;. The commission was formed to informally investigate charges that Putin ordered the Pechatniki and Kashirskoye apartment bombings. Yushenkov was killed at the entrance of his Moscow appartment.
4.) Yuri Shchekochikhin (July 2003) - opposition journalist, member of the
Russian Duma and the Kovalev Commission. Besides his activities in the
Kovalev Commision he was also active in the investigation of the usage
of poisoned gas in the Moscow theatre hostage crisis and the Three
Whales Corruption Scandal. So he had to go. He was poisoned with Thalium
shortly before he tried to flee russia. As until today, nobody from the Kovalev Commission has survived unharmed - either killed or prosecuted or otherwise silenced .
5.) Paul Klebnikov (July 2004) - journalist for the Russian edition of Forbes magazine was investigating the money laundering scheme around the Chechen reconstruction fund in which Putin was directly involved. Shot dead in Moscow.
6.) Andrei Kozlov (September 2006) - as a First Deputy Chairman of Russia's Central Bank he has detected money laundering scheme leading to Putin. Shot dead in Moscow.
7.) Anna Politkovskaya (October 2006) - journalist and a vocal critic of the putler regime and human rights violation in Chechnya. Author of several books where she criticize the putler regime in russia. Shot dead in her home in Moscow.
8.) Alexander Litvinenko (November 2006) - former KGB spy and author of the book &quot;Blowing up Russia&quot; who brought valuable proof in the Moscow apartment bombings and putler's orchestrating of it. Poisoned with radioactive Polonium.
9.) Stanislav Markelov (January 2009) - russian human right attorney who wanted to sue russian government for the early release of Yuri Budanov who killed a young Chechen client of Markelov and a young journalist, Anastasia Barburova, who was a student of Anna Politkovskaya. Markelov was shot dead directly after he left the conference on which he announced the intention to sue russian government.
10.) Natalia Estemirova (July 2009) - journalist and a human right activist viewed by many as the successor of Anna Politkovskaya. She was reporting about the common practice of russian soldiers who wiped-out whole families in Chechnya by locking them in their homes and burning them while they were inside. Abducted, shot dead and her body was thrown near a road.
11.) Gadzhimurat Kamalov (December 2011) - investigative journalist and owner of the newspaper &quot;Svoboda Slova&quot; and Chernovik who was reporting about the public corruption. Shot dead with 14 rounds.
12.) Boris Berezovsky (March 2013) - former russian oligarch and a vocal opponent of putler who might have supported various groups that would undermine putlers power in russia. Killed by one or more FSB/KGB agents who sneaked into his home and killed him under yet unknown circumstances, yet they made it look like a suicide.
13.) Boris Nemtsov (February 2015) - opposition leader, he hoped he could change russia from inside. A fatal mistake. Shot dead on behalf of putler for organizing anti-putler protests.
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Here I have to stop. The death toll of putler victims is too big. There are many more I haven't mentioned, who are direct or indirect victims of putler and his fascist regime. All these people didn't do anything bad, they just hoped to live in a country where the Good would win against the Evil. They didn't live in such country.
I finish this post with a thought from Boris Pasternak (I believe it was him) who said something like this: the whole NKVD (communist regime in russia) wouldn't be so efficient in killing people, if every second one to whom the NKVD &quot;paid a visit&quot; would &quot;greet&quot; them with an axe hidden behind the door.
The toll of murdered critics of the putler's fascist regime rises and putler is still smirking from his Kremlin fortress. Are there really no axes in russia?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6cd_1425113674RusoNecrophiliacThe list of Putin-ordered and orchestrated killingsUkraine Russia Fascist stateMexico's most-wanted drug lord 'La Tuta' is arrestedSat, 28 Feb 2015 05:30:08 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e3c_1425119401
EuronewsAuthorities in Mexico say they have captured the country's most wanted drug lord. The arrest on Friday of Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, is much-needed boost to the credibility of a government reeling from gang violence.
The 49 year-old former primary school teacher is the leader of the so-called Knights Templar cartel, who have been involved in a vicious struggle with armed vigilantes trying to oust them from Michoacan state in the west of Mexico.
Monte Alejandro Rubido is the country's Security Commissioner:
"Servando Gomez Martinez has eight arrest warrants outstanding and is linked to several ministerial crimes such as kidnapping, extortion, homicide, arms and drug trafficking - mainly crystal meth".
Special forces detained Gomez as he left an apartment early on Friday morning in the state capital Morelia.
Gomez was known for appearing on youtube railing against the police who he claimed were in league with rival gangs.
He has described the Knights Templar as a "necessary evil" and was the prime target in President Nieto's crackdown on the cartels.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e3c_1425119401EuronewsMexico's most-wanted drug lord 'La Tuta' is arrestedEuronewsShawanka's corner drugstiore shut downFri, 27 Feb 2015 15:57:42 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f59_1425070355
foghorn_leghornA Jamesville woman is accused of trafficking cocaine after authorities say they seized 28 grams of cocaine from her apartment. It had a street value of about $1,400.
Twenty-five year old Laquesha Freeman is locked up under a $200,000 bond after her arrest Monday at her Roanoke Court apartment in Jamesville. In addition to the cocaine, the Martin County Naroctics Unit officers say they found two grams of marijuana and a handgun.
Freeman's charges include two counts of trafficking cocaine, possession with intent to sell, manufacture or deliver cocaine, possession with intent to sell, manufacture or deliver marijuana, and maintaining a dwelling to keep or store controlled substances.
Freeman is due in court March 18.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f59_1425070355foghorn_leghornShawanka's corner drugstiore shut downShawanka's discount drugs busted by the evil whitemanArgentine judge dismisses allegations against presidentFri, 27 Feb 2015 02:45:17 -0500http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=78c_1425023111
EuronewsAn Argentinian judge has dismissed allegations that President Cristina Fernandez was involved in trying to cover up Iran's alleged involvement in the bombing of a Jewish centre 21 years ago.
The case was to have been brought by prosecutor Alberto Nisman, but hours before he was due to make his allegations in Congress last month he was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment.
Nisman died from a bullet to his head and a gun was found by his side.
President Fernandez had denied his allegations and called them absurd, claiming he had been duped by rogue security agents trying to smear her.
But the events surrounding the death of Nisman brought hundreds of thousands of Argentinians on to the streets, many questioning the independence of the country's judiciary.
Another prosecutor is expected to appeal the judges decision to dismiss Nisman's claims about Hernandez.
85 people died and over 300 people were injured in the bombing of the Jewish centre in Buenos Aires in 1994. Iran has always denied any involvement.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=78c_1425023111EuronewsArgentine judge dismisses allegations against presidentEuronews